Fibbery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood. uncountable, usually

    "Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare."

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credibility gapdishonestyfalsehoodlyingmendacity

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"Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare."

Etymology

From fib + -ery.

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